While the Warthog has outlived its usefulness in many potential conflicts, it retains an evolving niche and has psychological value.
Both the F-35 and the upgraded F-15s are excellent strike aircraft in their own right. But can either plane do everything ...
A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II was shot down in Iran while attempting to rescue crew members from the downed F-15 Strike Eagle fighter jet. According to US officials, the pilot safely ejected over ...
The Air Force reversed its plan to decommission the A-10 Warthog by 2029, a decision that affects the attack jet flown out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan. Earlier this year the 107th ...
Regardless of the A-10’s eventual fate, the Air Force must preserve a specialized “Attack Pilot” role—for which the Warthog is ideally suited. The “Dude 44” rescue mission over Iran exposed a looming ...
Two shark mouth-marked A-10s from Moody AFB’s 74th Fighter Squadron transited through RAF Lakenheath en route to the Middle East, possibly replacing the Warthog lost during the CSAR mission over Iran.
The aging attack plane has come close to retirement, but congressional and now military intervention has repeatedly thrown it a lifeline.
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